alt Hacker Newsnot necessarily, no. With SSDs you get much better IOPS for cold data, and many datasets fit in RAM. So a lot of (OLTP/HTAP) workloads can become CPU-bound due to sorting/hashing - bread and butter of joins.
not necessarily, no. With SSDs you get much better IOPS for cold data, and many datasets fit in RAM. So a lot of (OLTP/HTAP) workloads can become CPU-bound due to sorting/hashing - bread and butter of joins.
Though many use network block storage (e.g. EBS), which is significantly slower than an SSD.